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Book Review: The Real World of a Forensic Scientist
By Rebecca Waters
In The Real World of a Forensic Scientist Henry Lee, Elaine Pagliaro, and Katherine Ramsland expose the true nature of forensic science, countering the “CSI Effect” with a sobering analysis of the education, skills, and challenges involved in forensics.
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FORENSIC NEWS
  • Indicting DNA Profiles Is Vital in Old Rape Cases
    Prosecutors in Manhattan — racing the legal clock for bringing a case — devised the novel strategy of indicting a rapist’s DNA. While DNA evidence has been used to overturn wrongful convictions, often many years after the trial, such evidence has become essential in solving cold cases.
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  • Microsoft Gives Free Forensics Tool to U.S. Police
    Microsoft has teamed up with the National White Collar Crime Center to distribute a computer-forensics tool to U.S. police for free. The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) makes it easy for any officer, not just digital forensics specialists, to record the current processes of a suspect’s computer.
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  • FBI Analyst Accidentally Contaminates DNA
    An FBI forensic analyst mistakenly got some of her own DNA on evidence recovered from the site where Chandra Levy’s body was found, the most recent mishap in a case riddled with mistakes and missed opportunities.
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  • New Products from FEI, Micronic, Benchmark, and Thermo Fisher
    A look at the new solution for gunshot residue analysis from FEI, a direct-print tube labeling system from Micronic, sample mixing units from Benchmark Research Products, and a water purity book from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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  • Also in the News…
    Jail for Man after Leech Provides DNA
    S.C. Police Agencies Want In-House DNA Labs
    Too Broke To Bury Their Dead
    In Mexican Drug War, Investigators Are Fearful

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November 3-4, 2009
Microscopy for Forensic Document Examiners
College of Microscopy
Westmont, IL

November 4-7, 2009
NEAFS Annual Meeting
Long Branch, NJ

November 5-8, 2009
Association of Forensic Document Examiners Symposium
Milwaukee, WI

November 8-11, 2009
New England Division IAI Educational Conference
Freeport, ME

November 9-10, 2009
Forensic Document Examination Instrumentation
College of Microscopy
Westmont, IL

November 13-15, 2009
New England Crime Bake
Boston, MA

February 15-16, 2010
International Workshop on Recent Advances in Fingerprints
Allahabad, India

March 23-24, 2010
GovSec and U.S. Law Conference
Washington, DC

March 23-24, 2010
Kansas IAI Spring Conference
Manhattan, KS

March 24-26, 2010
Wisconsin Assoc for Identification Conference
Stevens Point, WI

May 17-21, 2010
MAAFS
State College, PA

May 24-27, 2010
California State Division IAI Seminar
Rancho Mirage, CA

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